Robert E. Crowe

Robert Emmett Crowe (22 January 1879-18 January 1958) was the Cook County State's Attorney from 1921 to 1932, succeeding John J. Healy and preceding Thomas J. Courtney.

Biography
Robert Emmett Crowe was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1879, and he graduated from Yale Law School in 1901 and became a Cook County Circuit Judge in 1916 with help from local Republican boss William Hale Thompson. He went on to become State's Attorney in 1921, and he was best known for prosecuting the 1924 Leopold and Loeb case. In 1930, he issued a subpoena for Al Capone to appear in court on charges of tax evasion after Capone's former employee George Moretti was convinced to turn state's evidence. Crowe left office in 1932, and he died in 1958.